Quepos

Quepos is a district and the capital of Aguirre canton in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica. The district has a population of about 22,000 human beings. The metropolis is ready 60 km. South from Costa Rica's capital, San Jose, however, is 157 km from that metropolis with the aid of road if going thru the localities of Atenas, Orotina, and Tarcoles. Quepos is the gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park.

The city could be very tourism-oriented, having many bars and restaurants and a vivacious night-existence. The city is named for the local Quepo Indians who inhabited the place within the colonial generation. The region became domestic to the native Quepoa humans of this specific Costa Rican location. In 1563, Spanish Catholic conquistadores, led through Juan Vázquez de Coronado, settled the region and based the settlement of San Bernardino de Quepo. The neighborhood native Quepo human beings had been then finally subjugated with the aid of Juan Vazquez and his conquistadores. In 1746, the Quepo people that remained had been transferred to a reservation which already contained every other native ethnic institution.